Chapter 2002 Potential

Chapter 2002 Potential

The woman in front of him was using some power he had no idea about to divine something about him.

'Is she trying to look into my future?' Alex thought, both fearing and being curious about what she would see. Was it good? Was it bad? Would he find out where his family was? Or if they had already arrived at the Sky God's Palace?

But then there was a possibility that she would also find out about the plants inside his Soul Space. He prayed she did not see it. He had to as this might be the easiest way to find his family.

Alex didn't move anymore and let the woman fully see whatever she could see.

"Argh!" the woman screamed at once, surprising Alex.

Her frosty blue eyes suddenly cracked and then it shattered in a dozen different ways, each creating fractures inside her eyes like a cracked mirror. It wasn't just her eyes that cracked but in fact, reality itself seemed to fracture when her eyes did.

Alex could feel the watchful gaze of whatever had been looking at him suddenly stop and then disappear. The woman reeled back away from Alex and one of the men quickly caught her.

"Sister Frosteyes, are you alright?" the man asked and the other women quickly moved to grab her as well.

"I'm okay," the woman said in a high-pitched tone and took a deep breath before calming down. "I'm okay." Her voice became normal.

She looked toward Alex and her cracked eyes were no longer there, just her regular eyes. It was such a surreal experience to have seen her eyes change so drastically.

'And why had they cracked?' Alex wondered. Did something bad happen?

The woman continued staring at Alex, not saying anything.

"Sister Frosteyes, what did you see?" the old man with the mole asked.

"I... I don't know," she said. "I thought it would all be clear, but..."

"Was it hazy?" one of them asked.

"Blue light?" he asked, turning to look at the black monolith. "How do I make it shine?"

"Just place your hand on the monolith and stand there. It will do the rest," he said.

Alex nodded slowly and said, "May I ask what that monolith does before I start?"

"It's a simple thing, it tests your talent," the man said.

Alex raised his eyebrows. "Talent?" he asked. It had been a long while since he had ever come across something that tested his talent. The very last thing was the helm that they put on the players and that had been a rough artifact created by the senior for quick testing. Alex looked at the monolith and understood that this thing was most likely the real deal. 'Should I show them my talent?' he wondered for a moment before letting go of that thought process. 'They know enough already to do something if they wish to.'

"I will start then, seniors," he said and walked up to the black monolith. He took a deep breath and placed his palm on the smooth stone.

As soon as he touched it, he felt a cold energy pulse out of the stone and enter his body in waves. The energy felt normal with no intention of harming him, so he let it do its thing.

The black monolith glowed brightly with black light that shined all around him and it slowly began changing color. The dark light became dark red light that became more and more red as time went on.

Once it was fully red, the color changed some more, turning purple slowly. It lost the red color and gained the purple color.

Alex could see the elders talking among themselves from the corner of his eyes, but he couldn't hear what they were saying. He ignored them and focused on what was before him.

The rate of change in color began slowing down significantly, but they could still see the purple color gradually losing more and more red to become blue.

'This color scheme,' Alex thought. 'It's the same one from the Realm of Trails.'

He remembered the many trials he had taken in the Gold Kingdom of the Eastern Continent where each time he passed a test, his color changed.

'That means, black is worst, then red, then purple, then blue, and finally white is the highest,' Alex thought.

The old man had told him that he needed to reach the blue light, but that was the least he needed surely.

'Should I...?' Alex wondered. After a bit of thought, he nodded to himself.

'Let's go all the way to white.'